To be honest, Yu Sheng found it quite difficult to take his first bite—not because he wasn't hungry. He hadn't eaten anything for a long time and was already ravenous. Nor was it because he didn't dare challenge the "food" in front of him. After all, he had already eaten Huli's cooking once and knew that although the things this girl made looked outrageous, they actually tasted all right. Besides, Fox Girl was sitting right beside him, propping up her head and staring at him with her big eyes, so no matter what, he had to try the stuff in the bowl.
The main problem was that the pile of "stew" in the bowl... was avoiding the spoon.
Yes, this hodgepodge, heaven only knew what cyber-immortal technique had been applied to it, was dodging the spoon! It was even wriggling while bulging up in the middle, looking as though it was flipping him off—this was seriously beyond Yu Sheng's understanding of food.
After staring at the bowl on the table and struggling internally for a long while, Yu Sheng finally raised his head, somewhat conflicted. "Is this normal?"
"Ah, sorry, I forgot one more step!" Huli suddenly realized. She raised her hand and sketched several glowing symbols in the air, then muttered at the dining table. In any case, it was a series of operations that, no matter how he looked at them, had nothing to do with "cooking." Only afterward did she let out a long sigh, a smile on her face. "All done, benefactor. It understands now."
Yu Sheng was completely dumbfounded—huh? It understood? Understood what? Who understood? Wait, this was cooking! Why was the final step of cooking communicating with the food so that it would "understand"? Did the machines of The Crossroads have machine spirits, and